diff --git a/HACKING.md b/HACKING.md
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@@ -52,8 +52,19 @@ organised tree-ish in `GHCup.Utils` and `GHCup.Utils.*`.
 Anything dealing with ghcup specific directories is in
 `GHCup.Utils.Dirs`.
 
-Download information on where to fetch bindists from is in
-`GHCup.Data.GHCupDownloads`.
+Download information on where to fetch bindists from is in the appropriate
+yaml files: `ghcup-<yaml-ver>.yaml`.
+
+## Common Tasks
+
+### Adding a new GHC version
+
+1. open the latest `ghcup-<yaml-ver>.yaml`
+2. find the latest ghc version (in yaml tree e.g. `ghcupDownloads -> GHC -> 8.10.3`)
+3. copy-paste it
+4. adjust the version, tags, changelog, source url
+5. adjust the various bindist urls (make sure to also change the yaml anchors)
+6. run `cabal run exe:ghcup-gen -- check-tarballs -f ghcup-<yaml-ver>.yaml -u 'ghc-8\.10\.4'`
 
 ## Major refactors